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sexta-feira, 1 de julho de 2011

Environment: a question of "σοφία"



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Fhilosophy (Φιλοσοφία the Greek, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of fundamental problems related to the existence, knowledge, truth, moral and aesthetic values, mind and language. [ 1] To address these issues, the philosophy is distinguished from mythology and religion for his emphasis on rational argument, on the other hand, differs from the scientific research they usually do not resort to empirical procedures in their investigations. Among his methods, the arguments are logical, conceptual analysis, asexperiências other methods of thought and a priori.


Environment: a question of "σοφία"


"Study of the fundamental problems related to:
into existence:
the truth
moral values
aesthetic values
related to the mind
related to language. "(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

It is challenging, and extremely intriguing, the environmental issue: climate and geological changes, and the urgent need to preserve the environment.

The facts prove that the radical climate change in all regions of the Earth, and significant environmental disasters that do not allow doubts as against the facts, no arguments.

Then comes a crucial question: why most people remain indifferent or skeptical about the most important issue for our future, our, and all other species?

Why, so skeptical?

Why, so much indifference?

Why, such a waste of precious time to act in a timely manner and prevent further environmental disasters?

The answer lies in the definition of the word "σοφία" in the original Greek language.


"Σοφία" means "wisdom" in relation to individual and collective existence.


Varying degrees of "wisdom", which determine the "philosophy of life," individual and collective.

To understand the indifference and skepticism about the future issues of the environment, simply review our "wisdom in relation to vehicle traffic in big cities.

What has been the extent of our "wisdom" to deal with wars, drugs with narcotics, terrorism, corruption of governments, with the ruined economies, urban violence, with the growth of large urban cities desornado, with population growth, with progress and technology is not sustainable?

What is the degree of "wisdom" of our species to investigate and understand our cosmic origins?

What has been our "wisdom" to investigate our origins and the geological formation of our planet Earth, anthropological, genetic, archaeological and astronomical?

What was the extent of our "wisdom" when we were confronted with the discoveries and achievements of human knowledge in different areas of scientific research? Just read the accounts of the Middle Ages.

Each new discovery was coldly discarded, or answered with the "Holy Inquisition".

Independent scientists and Freethinkers have always been demonized in the entire history of mankind.

There are thousands of examples: Galileo and his discoveries, Darwinism, Isaac Newton, Socrates, Copernicus, John Dalton, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, finally, the list is endless in all areas of human knowledge advances, faced with his contemporaries.

Finally, through "σοφία" of the Greeks, we see the answer to so much indifference, and skepticism is a matter of "wisdom", or philosophy of life, collective or individual.

The same degree of "σοφία" that always used to drink alcohol, to drive the car in city traffic, for marriage, dealing with neighbors, with different religious, social, ethnic, cultural, we are applying to handle the new discoveries in science, and ideological confrontation in the face of new environmental realities and climate.

"Σοφία" into existence: the possibility of destroying quality of life for future generations ...

"Σοφία" to the truth: We renounce the irrefutable evidence and the confrontation with the real facts ...

"Σοφία" moral values: the values ​​prevalent economic, individual and immediately ...

"Σοφία" aesthetic values: Replaced by market value. No "σοφία" the redefinition of new values, forgotten, despised, ridiculed, namely, forests, clean water, animals, preservation of Mother Nature, the environment, ecosystems, biodiversity ....

"Σοφία" related to the mind: Contaminated and diluted in a glass of existential deadly poison, which undermines any possibility of psychological life, healthy, dignified and sustainable for future generations ...

"Σοφία" related to language. "Corrupt and shattered by the" marketing "business, immediate, unbridled capitalism, consumerism, disposable, tasteless, trifles, follies, fads, which destroys the last natural reserves of the Earth in search of profit, advantage, the field at any price.


To believe or doubt, accept or reject, to act or is idle in the face of new climatic and geological realities that compromise the future of the global environment, is a question of "σοφία."

RUI SANTOS DE SOUZA

Brazil, Curitiba, July 1, 2011 - 19h: 08

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